Ray Friesen has been blogging up a storm lately at the Kids Love Comics blog. He’s looking for kids’ webcomics to review. In his latest post, he checks out the Zuda comic Celadore but finds it closer to PG-13 than all ages.

A British comic about acceptance of diversity backfires when a Christian group objects to a drawing of a boy with a cross bullying a Moslem girl in hijab. (Via Robot 6.)

This article in the The Morning Call, which serves Allentown, PA, almost seems like satire, but I think the guy is serious: He misses the good old days when teachers were like drill instructors and reading a book was the equivalent of 20 pushups. Also, comics don’t cost a dime any more, and they have boobies in them now. So therefore, using them in the classroom is evil. It’s like a mashup of every curmudgeonly writer you have ever seen. The comment thread to this post starts out OK but has a depressingly large representation from the children-should-be-forced-to-read contingent. Happily, a parent with a child in the class in question responds with a good defense of comics in school.

Brigid Alverson, the editor of the Good Comics for Kids blog, has been reading comics since she was 4. She has an MFA in printmaking and has worked as a book editor and a newspaper reporter; now she is assistant to the mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts. In addition to editing GC4K, she writes about comics and graphic novels at MangaBlog, SLJTeen, Publishers Weekly Comics World, Comic Book Resources, MTV Geek, and Good E-Reader.com. Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters in college, which is why she writes so much. She was a judge for the 2012 Eisner Awards.

About Good Comics For Kids

We are a group of librarians, parents, and writers--and most of us wear at least two of those hats--who started writing about kids' comics in 2008 because, well, nobody else was. We like everything from Literary Graphic Novels to blatantly commercial (but fun!) licensed properties. And we don't lump all ages together; we're smart enough to know that a three-year-old has different abilities and interests than a 13-year-old.

Our goal is to cover kids' comics (for readers from birth to age 16) with both breadth and depth, through a mix of news, reviews, interviews, and previews, and to be both accessible to casual readers and interesting enough for serious fans.